http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...122100748.html

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The five maverick Republicans-- Susan M. Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, Gordon Smith of Oregon, Mike DeWine of Ohio and Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island -- joined James Jeffords, an independent from Vermont, and all Senate Democrats in opposing the bill, which would allow states to impose new fees on Medicaid recipients, cut federal child support enforcement funds, impose new work requirements on state welfare programs and squeeze student lenders.
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Most of the people who vote republican are usually religious and poor. I'm sure they are regretting their decision now.

The Republicans put out the bait of fighting for religious values, being tough on terrorism and lower taxes.

Well they switch. Sure they lower taxes, but the poor/middle class who vote for them hardly notice the tax cuts, but the services that they depend on get cut, deeply.

Religious values? The Republicans generate controversy for the sake of fighting it to distract people from their real purpose. They put out non-issues like gay marriage, blow ethunasia cases out of proportion, then switch on the poor bastards who voted for them, but cutting services and giving most of the tax breaks to the wealthy.